From: | Brendan Duddridge <brendan(at)clickspace(dot)com> |
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To: | Jim C(dot) Nasby <jim(at)nasby(dot)net> |
Cc: | Brian Wipf <brian(at)clickspace(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org, Guido Neitzer <lists(at)event-s(dot)net> |
Subject: | Re: shared_buffers > 284263 on OS X |
Date: | 2006-11-27 03:20:52 |
Message-ID: | D3861A42-C8A2-42C7-ABCB-494BED477819@clickspace.com |
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I think the main issue is that we can't seem to get PostgreSQL
compiled for 64 bit on OS X on an Xserve G5. Has anyone done that?
We have 8 GB of RAM on that server, but we can't seem to utilize it
all. At least not for the shared_buffers setting.
Thanks,
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On Nov 26, 2006, at 4:25 PM, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 08:13:26PM -0700, Brian Wipf wrote:
>> It certainly is unfortunate if Guido's right and this is an upper
>> limit for OS X. The performance benefit of having high shared_buffers
>> on our mostly read database is remarkable.
>
> Got any data about that you can share? People have been wondering
> about
> cases where drastically increasing shared_buffers makes a difference.
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> Jim Nasby jim(at)nasby(dot)net
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